Improvement in graining-rollers



W. H. BURNS.

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WILLIAM H. BURNS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAlNlNG-ROLLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,708, dated July 20,1875; application filed March 29, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BURNS, of Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Graining-Roller,of which the following is a specification In the accompanying drawing,Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved graining-roller, andFig. 2 a top View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to provide a painters graining-roller, bywhich panels of dit'erent sizes may be readily and conveniently grainedin any imitation of wood or other style.

The invention consists of a movable shoulder of the roller below theflexible transferbelt that is stretched by suitable mechanism overshoulder and roller, for the purpose of adjusting the circumference ofthe roller, from shoulder edge to stationary roller edge, to the exactwidth or size ot' the panel.

In the drawing, A represents a roller, of any suitable material andsize, for grainin g panels,

being provided with an immovable projecting shoulder, B, at one end, forentering with its edge into the corner of the panels, wainscoting, 8mo.,which feature has heretofore been patented to me. Roller A turns freelyby its central pivot-pins or shafts a in handle-frame C, while a movableshoulder, D, of triangular or oth er shape, swings by its radial sidearms D on the saine roller-pivots along the circumference of the roller,being at its base or lower part concaved to conform to the shape of thesame. The movable shoulder D is attached by set-screws b to the sides ofroller A, and may be set to any point along the circumference of thesame, for being adjusted to the size of any panel. The movable shoulderD is designed to enter exactly into that corner ot' the panel oppositethe one entered by the immovable shoulder B, transmitting by a smoothflexible belt, E, formed of india-rubber or printers7 composition oncanvas, cloth, leather, or of other suitable material, any desiredgraining to the panel. The ljexible transferf ring-belt E is stretchedtightly around roller and shoulders by means ot' a crank, ratchet, andspring-pawl, in the usual manner, taking up the paint from a stereotypedor other transfer plate, and allowing the rapid and economical grainin'gof panels of dit't'erent sizes from corner to corner by one rotation ot'the roller.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- As an improvement in painters7 grainingrollers, thecombination, with a roller having a stationary projecting shoulder, ot'a movable shoulder for adjusting the stretched transmitting-belt to anywidth of panel, substantially in the manner and for the purpose setforth.

WILLIAM H. BURNS. Witnesses:

H. S. WITMAN, J. L. REED.

